This image was taken during Cassini's closest-ever approach to Enceladus on March 9, 2005.

The image was taken in visible light with the narrow angle camera from a distance of approximately 165,000 kilometers (102,500 miles) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 124 degrees. Resolution in the image is about 990 meters (3,250 feet) per pixel.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.